481 – Videogames

The only videogame I can play with these is dominoes! and everything is a double-one!

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Having spoken to friends since putting the comic out, I’m getting an average of about 20% of people (my age or younger) knowing what video poker even is. I suppose the joke is less good if people haven’t heard of the game…

Discussion (2) ¬

In this one, I initially interpreted the top left speach bubble as coming from the character on the right. I think this was due to the very right-leaning connection between it and its following bubble. I don’t know if I’m an isolated case, maybe something a little closer to the vertical wouldn’t have produced this confusion.

About half my comics I draw on new sheets of board (I’ll be putting up a page about my process at the end of the year.)

When I finish a comic, I tend to cut the board, to keep the original on a single piece. I keep the remaining pieces in a drawer, and use them for the smaller comics. This one I drew on such a piece, and the space constraints meant I had to shift the bubbles around a bit.

I also originally drew the comic as multiple panels, but it looked kinda bad, so I took the mid gutter out.